By analyzing the grapheme and summing up the meaning of the Chinese character"cheng",the authors point out that the original meaning of the character should be"ascend",which corrects its paraphrase in the Chiˉnese Dictionary.
通過對“乘”字的字形簡析和義項歸納 ,“乘”的本義當為“登、升” ,糾正了《漢語大字典》、《漢語大詞典》“乘”條的釋義。